I am going to install 5.41 now to test it_________________in the time it took me to boot windows, edit this signature, save it, and shutdown, an identical spec pc was able to boot puppy, start songbird, and reboot 3 times.

Confirmation... Steam works great (well as much as it can in Beta state) on latest Precise so far... haven't had a chance to do a whole lot just yet. Just played around in Trine2 for a bit so far. Kinda cool resuming a game from a wine install on another box. lol

Anyway - kudos to Precise Puppy. Good Dog!

Steam did almost everything too. All I did was install the .deb, let it update (about 112MB) and hello! There was the library. Then I had to dig around and get apt going for the game updates. Other than that - nice.

Kind of defeats the purpose of keeping Puppy small, but pretty cool. And it's FAST. Plus it is all still running on one 16GB USB stick lol - novelty but still geeky cool

Thanks, just read that and even understood a bit I think, apt-get would be an awesome addition to Puppy, but I think I'm just missing something obvious, having just switched back to Puppy after the endless grief Mint 13 was giving me.

I can confirm that Steam works for "precise puppy 5.4.3" nearly out of box. The only problem being that the script created in /usr/bin tries to call on dpkg. Comment out lines 120-149 or in other words made it look like this

It might be with Steam, that proper function of drivers from Nvidia and ATI is the real issue. As for me, in a year I still have not gotten it right with drivers for my ASUS U36SD with a Nvidia GeForce GT 520m.

That said, I can install the driver and reboot into a setup that always have left me with a black screen with a marker blinking up in the upper right corner. Th only distro I came across that did have support for this out of the box, is Sabayon.

So if there was releases that covered this issue, I think Puppy would take the lead, as this is the possible the major issue and not steam in it self.

Also I think Offline gaming is a issue where Puppy can turn "badass" as one can use stuff like Shareinternet to create a Lan Party hooked up by wire and even more innovative, to have some support for HostAPD, so that Puppy gives the world a new stage to play on:

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